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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Percentile
James Hinshelwood
MSLE
Prefix
2. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Norm-Referenced Test
Semantics
Anna Gillingham
Keith Stanovich
3. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Auditory Learners
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
4. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Auditory Learners
Tilde
Phoneme
5. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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6. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Direct Instruction
Combination
Reading Comprehension Support
Letter naming Chart
7. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
Frank Smith
[-'le
V >
8. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Reading Comprehension Support
Kinesthetic
Receptive language
9. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Closed Syllable
Cognitive Assessment
Top-down Reading Approach
Age equivalent
10. Multisensory Structured Language Education
GORT
Battery
Standard Scores
MSLE
11. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Standard score
Reliability
12. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Standardized test
Simultaneous teaching
Curriculum referenced tests
V-e
13. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Standardized test
Latin layer of language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 3
14. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Receptive language
Standard score
Vowel Digraph
GORT
15. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Consonant
Anna Gillingham
Consonant Digraph
Composite Score
16. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Adolf Kusmaul
Curriculum referenced tests
Norm-Referenced Test
Orthography
17. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Consonant
Chall's Stage 2
Phonemic Awareness
Cognition
18. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Orthography
Progress Monitoring
Diphthong
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
19. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Pre-English
Funding
Combination
Matthew Effect
20. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Visual Learners
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Grapheme
Prefix
21. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Vowel Digraph
Percentile/ percentile rank
Stanine Scores
Matthew Effect
22. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 1
Combination
Phonological Awareness
23. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Diagnostic Teaching
Towre
Oral Language
Standardized test
24. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Consonant
Top-down Reading Approach
James Hinshelwood
Mastery level
25. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Mastery level
Visual Processing
Keith Stanovich
Modification
26. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
Linguistic Method
Closed Syllable
27. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Oral Language
Funding
Standardized test
Breve
28. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Towre
Letter naming Chart
Reliability
Vowel Digraph
29. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Composite Score
Breve
Tilde
ADHD
30. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Direct Instruction
VAKT
31. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Pre-English
Vowel
Sound Symbol Association
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
32. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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33. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Social language
Chall's Stage 1
Dyslexia
34. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Combination
Reading Comprehension Support
35. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Vowel Digraph
Letter naming Chart
Raw score
RTI
36. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Suffix
Dyslexia
Prefix
Percentile
37. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
WRAT
Mathew Effect
IMSLEC
Greek layer of language
38. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Tilde
Standardized test
Trigraph
39. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Cedilla
Norm-referenced tests
Middle English
Chall's Stage 1
40. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Keith Stanovich
Fluency
Phonological Awareness
Digraph
41. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
IEP
Chall's Stage 5
Morpheme
Accuracy
42. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Morpheme
Pre-English
GORT
43. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Adolf Kusmaul
Diagnostic tests
Samuel T. Orton
Syllable Instruction
44. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Modern English
Receptive language
Battery
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
45. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
GORT
Modification
Cognitive Assessment
46. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Auditory Learners
Phonological Awareness
Academic Achievement Tests
Fluency
47. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
The Norman Conquest
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Stage 5
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
48. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Standard deviation
Towre
49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Texas Education Code 28.06
GORT
Syntax
Letter naming Chart
50. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Whole Language
Mathew Effect
Diagnostic Teaching
Trigraph